These poems entwine round such matters as how roots move as they
grow or how feet plant themselves, why a forest admits lanes and
lines but obstructs them into shelter, how a tree might relate to
all it isn't, what the hidden domains of nature can mean in and for
trees, or the way in which trees cast the skies themselves into
flight. The two last poems envisage a body language for trees, or
how a dead upright tree remains a living nub of forest. "Setting up
an ecological orientation against habitual ways of reading and
perceiving language, Larkin's poems offer scientifically
descriptive close investi-gations of trees whilst implying an
allegorical dimension. They do so by means of a range of registers
that only gain their scarce value in relation to one another."
—Katharina Maria Kalinowski "Peter Larkin's radically
de-anthropocentrized poetry offers restorative glimpses of a
possible 'dimensional commons'. Encroach to Resume continues that
dedicated project, now branching beyond our Anthroposcenic 'gap in
the planet baled out by tree-pumps' towards a hyper-extensive
terrain of organic and poetic interrelation. Through metamorphic
expressions of encroachment and resumption, congealment and
bifurcation, collapse and recovery, these poems are saturated by
thresholds of contact between things 'differently given, not /
riven in difference'. The collection represents another landmark in
Larkin's own conceptual forest, furthering the unique
somatic-semantic plexus of his bewildering and vital body of
poetry." —Dominic Hand
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2021 |
Authors: |
Peter Larkin
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
104 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-756-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-756-9 |
Barcode: |
9781848617568 |
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